Bruno Fuchs (geologist)
Bruno Fuchs (born January 31, 1907 in Wißgoldingen , Schwäbisch Gmünd district ; † December 3, 1962 in Munich ) was a German geologist and paleontologist.
Fuchs went to school in Rottweil, initially studied mechanical engineering at the TH Stuttgart, but then switched to geology, mineralogy and chemistry in Tübingen and Kiel and received his doctorate in 1934 under Edwin Hennig in Tübingen (stratigraphy and tectonics in the area of the lower Bära near Egesheim and the Lippach near Mahlstetten). From 1936 to 1939 he was at the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA) and the Reich Office for Soil Research in Berlin in the geophysics department for the investigation of oil fields (gravity measurements). During the Second World War, in addition to his work as a geophysicist, he was at times also a soldier and from 1944 to 1950 a Soviet prisoner of war. From 1951 he was at the Bavarian State Geological Office, initially in the project of mapping the Molasse zone. He later became a councilor.
He researched Terebellen , Nusplinger Plattenkalk and mapped the Swabian Alb and after the war in Fürth, Nuremberg, Schwabach, Roßtal, Heilsbronn and Windsbach (geological maps 1: 25,000 each). He also dealt with lignite in the Rhön.
literature
- Obituary by H. Haunschild in Geologica Bavarica , 51, 1963, 1
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fuchs, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wißgoldingen , Schwäbisch Gmünd district |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 1962 |
| Place of death | Munich |